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* * * [A thousand winters]

A thousand winters' words have sounded clearer than my own. I hold up the wind, admire its color. The cup tries to empty but I keep it full, alright. I regret that while I lived, I never drank enough. A thousand years and no one speaking, no light. It's my own fault if my life is bitter; tough things flourish here. I'm sad the need is lost for torches. As day dawns misty, I'm a ghost.

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Matvei Yankelevich

* 24.09.1973, Moscow, Russialives in: Brooklyn, New York City, United States

Matvei Yankelevich's books include Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt (Black Square), Alpha Donut (United Artists), and Boris by the Sea (Octopus). His translations of Russian writers into English include Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook), and (with Eugene Ostashevsky) Alexander Vvedensky's An Invitation for Me to Think (NYRB Poets), which received a National Translation Award.

He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is a founding editor of Ugly Duckling Presse, and teaches at Columbia University's School of the Arts and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.